Category: Poetry

Medbh McGuckian; Nuala Archer | Two Women, Two Shores | The publication of Two Women, Two Shores in 1989 made explicit Archer’s continued connection to Ireland and broadened her themes by including poems se

Nuala Archer | Pan/Ama | A visualized strangeness … the body of a poet and the body of an elsewhere, a series of ruptures on the geo-political map … I can think of few poe

Julie Blackwomon | Revolutionary Blues And Other Fevers |

Robin Becker | Backtalk | As its title suggests, Backtalk, published in 1982, highlights the poet’s cheeky refusal to accept cultural norms. The volume contains some of Becker’

Robin Becker | Giacometti’s Dog | Celebratory or eligiac, these poems record the author’s “two-headed journey” to root herself – geographically and emotionally – in the world.  Becker’

Nuala Archer | Whale on the Line | The body is a central trope in Archer’s work. Fearlessly, she explores the sense of exile that results from physical trauma. For example, in “The Devi

t’ai freedom ford | how to get over | An astonishing debut, how to get over is part instruction manual, part prayer, part testimony. It attempts to solve the reader’s problems (by telling

Stephanie Young | Pet Sounds | A book of unruly love poems about complicated sexuality, precarity, and kinship Working from the sticky interface of property and sex, Stephanie Young

t’ai freedom ford | & more black | Poetry. African & African American Studies. Women’s Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. t’ai freedom ford’s second collection of poems, & MORE BLACK, is direct,

Chea Villanueva | The Things I Never Told You | We are unable to provide a description at this time.